Majority of Americans agree with Palin on ObamaCare

Forget the town halls just for a few minutes and take a look at the numbers. In an online (and therefore unscientific) poll of its readers conducted this weekend, AOL posed the question:

Do you agree with Palin's characterization of Obama's health plan as "evil"?

The results so far, with 188,220 votes recorded:

Yes 59%
No 41%

If the AOL poll were the only indication of the mood of the country about Obama's plan to socialize medicine in this country, it could be ignored. But three more statistically significant surveys conducted by respected polling organizations tend to back up the AOL results.

A scientific Rasmussen survey conducted late last month produced results which show that a majority oppose the Democrat-sponsored health care bill currently being considered by the congress:

The health care reform legislation working its way through Congress has lost support over the past month. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% of U.S. voters are at least somewhat in favor of the reform effort while 53% are at least somewhat opposed.

Today’s 44% level of support is down from 46% two weeks ago, and 50% in late June.

Opposition has grown from 45% in late June to 49% two weeks ago and 53% today.

Rasmussen's findings support the results of a poll conducted in mid-July by Zogby for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston:

"By a 50-42 margin, Americans oppose the House of Representatives' bill introduced July 14," said S. Ward Casscells, M.D., vice president of external affairs and public policy and the John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor in Cardiology at the UT Health Science Center at Houston. "This bill would call for most employers to sponsor health plans and would also create a Medicare-like plan for those under 65 who have no other health plan. The increased costs would be covered by increasing income taxes on individuals making more than $280,000 and families making more than $350,000."

The UT/Zogby survey revealed that most Americans are unwilling to pay higher taxes and instead want to use the savings from improving care and cutting fraud and waste to fund health care for those who are currently uninsured. Another key finding of the poll is that 84 percent of those who have health insurance are satisfied with the care they are receiving.

A Quinnipiac poll conducted last week shows that Americans are wary of the Democrats' idea of health care reform, and they disapprove of the way Obama has handled the issue:

American voters, by a 55 - 35 percent margin, are more worried that Congress will spend too much money and add to the deficit than it will not act to overhaul the health care system, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released August 5. By a similar 57 - 37 percent margin, voters say health care reform should be dropped if it adds "significantly" to the deficit.

By a 72 - 21 percent margin, voters do not believe that President Barack Obama will keep his promise to overhaul the health care system without adding to the deficit, the independent Quinnipiac University national poll finds.

American voters disapprove 52 - 39 percent of the way President Obama is handling health care, down from 46 - 42 percent approval July 1, with 60 - 34 percent disapproval from independent voters. Voters say 59 - 36 percent that Congress should not pass health care reform if only Democratic members support it.

Americans clearly oppose what the president and the congress are trying to do to our health care system. Unfortunately, the will of the people means little to Obama and the Democrats, who are drunk on power and determined to push through a statist agenda which involves the federal government more deeply in virtually every aspect of our lives.

Obama has motivated his most rabid supporters to "get in the faces" of all who oppose him on this issue, and his internet shock troops are attacking the opposition, especially Rep. Michelle Bachmann and former Gov. Sarah Palin, two of their favorite targets.

Obama has put the United States on a fast track to socialism. Push back. Call your senators and congressmen and tell them, respectfully of course, not just "no" -- but "Hell no!"

- JP